You need a perfect bone structure, insane levels of masculinity and then an extra special "it" factor to pull off bald in general.Something that almost none of us have.You can look ok bald, masculine even, but for nearly all of us you'll never look as good as you do with hair.Hair frames the face and doesn't make asymmetry or weak bones as obvious.Like you said Turkish transplants can be had for peanuts.5k and all sorted.
True mate, I remember when a mate of mine gave in and shaved his head and tried to carry off the bald tough guy look, he was built like an aids patient with a lightbulb shaped head and was going everywhere with a brown vest on and walked with a strut it was one of the most ridiculously comical looking things I’ve ever seen.
For me the hairline receding made a big difference to apparent age, more so from the side. I didn’t give a fuck about going grey early, wear shit clothes, wouldn’t be seen dead in jewellery basically not giving much of a shit how look the exception being the receding hairline that really bugged me haha